And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
Ver. 6. With all my power I have served.] The word translated power signifieth that natural moisture of the body that maketh it lively and lusty, vigorous and valorous to do service. So it is used, Genesis 49:3 Psalms 22:15. Now if Jacob served Laban with all his might, should not we the Lord, a far better Master? Baruch "repaired earnestly". Neh 3:20 Caleb "fulfilled after God". Num 14:24 Nehemiah traded every talent with which divine providence had trusted him: he worketh, warreth, watcheth, commandeth, encourageth, threateneth, punisheth, &c. "David danced with all his might," 2Sa 6:14 and did all the wills of God to his dying day; painfully serving out his time to the last. Happy is he that can say, in a spiritual sense, as it was said of Moses, that, after a long profession of religion, he remits not of his zeal; "his sight is not waxed dim, nor his natural" heat or "force abated"; Deu 34:7 that he is "not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord". Rom 12:11